ArticleJournal of clinical imaging science2011
Role of Magnetic Resonance Enterography in Differentiating between Fibrotic and Active Inflammatory Small Bowel Stenosis in Patients with Crohn's Disease.
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- The Role of Magnetic Resonance Enterography in Crohn's Disease: A Review of Recent Literature.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Perianal Crohn's Disease at 1.5 and 3.0 T: A Feasibility Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Imaging of the small intestine in Crohn's disease: Joint position statement of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and Indian Radiological and Imaging Association.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2017Article
- Non-invasive evaluation of intestinal disorders: The role of elastographic techniques.World journal of gastroenterology · 2017Review
- The Role of MR Enterography in Assessing Crohn's Disease Activity and Treatment Response.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2016Review
- Detection of Small Bowel Mucosal Healing and Deep Remission in Patients With Known Small Bowel Crohn's Disease Using Biomarkers, Capsule Endoscopy, and Imaging.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2015Observational
- Multidisciplinary management of gastrointestinal fibrotic stenosis in Crohn's disease.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2015Review
- Characterization of inflammation and fibrosis in Crohn's disease lesions by magnetic resonance imaging.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2015Article
- Increased prevalence of luminal narrowing and stricturing identified by enterography in pediatric Crohn's disease patients with elevated granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor autoantibodies.Inflammatory bowel diseases · 2013Article
- Diffusion-weighted imaging and apparent diffusion coefficient values for evaluating terminal ileitis in patients with Crohn's disease.Radiologia brasileiraArticle
- Indian guidelines on imaging of the small intestine in Crohn's disease: A joint Indian Society of Gastroenterology and Indian Radiology and Imaging Association consensus statement.The Indian journal of radiology & imagingArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in prospectively differentiating between fibrotic and active inflammatory small bowel stenosis in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). MATERIALS AND
methodsA total of 111 patients with histologically proven CD presenting with clinical and plain radiographic signs of small bowel obstruction underwent coronal and axial MRI scans after oral administration of polyethylene glycol solution. A stenosis was judged present if a small bowel segment had >80% lumen reduction as compared to an adjacent normal loop and mural thickening of >3 mm. At the level of the stenosis, both T2 signal intensity and post-gadolinium T1 enhancement were quantified using a 5-point scale (0: very low; 1: low; 2: moderate; 3: high; and 4: very high). A stenosis was considered fibrotic if the sum of the two values (activity score: AS) did not exceed 1.
resultsA small bowel stenosis was identified in 48 out of 111 patients. Fibrosis was confirmed at histology in all of the 23 patients with AS of 0 or 1, who underwent surgery within 3 days of the MRI examination. In the remaining 25 patients (AS: 2-8), an active inflammatory stenosis was suspected and remission of the obstructive symptoms was obtained by means of medical treatment. One of these patients (AS: 2), however, underwent surgery after 14 days, due to recurrence. MRI had 95.8% sensitivity, 100% specificity, and 97.9% accuracy in the diagnosis of fibrotic stenosis.
conclusionMRI is reliable in differentiating fibrotic from inflammatory small bowel stenosis in CD.
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